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“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort” (2 Corinthians 1:3).

Scripture says God is the “Father of mercies” and the “God of all comfort.” In His mercy and love, God has provided comfort for His children in all circumstances. Jesus says, “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you” (John 14:18).

It is through the Scripture Jesus keeps His promise to always be with us. Scripture says, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (John 14:23).

God gave the Scripture as an anchor and comfort for our souls: “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope” (Romans 15:4).

When the Bible says God is “God of all comfort” it means God is the Father of all Scripture. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).

God is the Father of all Scripture, and Scripture is His Son: “That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us” (Hebrews 6:18).

Scripture is the Comfort, and the Holy Spirit is the Comforter or Helper. Jesus says, “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me” (John 15:26).

When God made promise to Abraham He gave Himself as the guarantor: “For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself” (Hebrews 6:13).

Scripture is that Guarantor, who is Christ: “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed, “who is Christ” (Galatians 3:16).

The Word is the Seed, and to receive the Word is to have the promise. The more we believe the Scripture, the more of God’s comfort we shall enjoy. Just as Abraham who “did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief” (Romans 4:20).

God gave the Scripture as pledge for His promise; it is the Holy Bible that makes the promise sure and steadfast. The Word is God’s unbreakable hope, which “hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast” (Hebrews 6:19).

Scripture is God’s oath, the Word of oath which God swore by Himself, who is Jesus Christ the promised Son of God: “But the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever” (Hebrews 7:28).

All Scripture is the Son of God and the Father’s Promise. That’s why Jesus said to His disciples, “Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49).

God promised to give the Holy Spirit to teach us all Scripture. The Holy Scripture is that spiritual Teacher or Helper.  Jesus says, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things” (John 14:26).

No one can know Jesus Christ unless they are taught by the Bible. The only Teacher who can open our understanding is “the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15).

When the Spirit of the Holy Scripture comes upon anyone they will know the Bible. It is the Spirit of the Scripture that opens the mind to know that the Holy Bible is Jesus Christ: “And His name is called The Word of God” (Revelation 19:13).

PRAYER
Dear heavenly Father, fill my heart with the Holy Spirit of the Bible so that the Comforter will abide with me forever, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14).

Before we were born God made provision for our salvation by a covenant. God saved us by Jesus Christ “through the blood of the everlasting covenant” (Hebrews 13:20). And upon this covenant hangs the salvation of humankind.

The assurance of God’s covenant is in His blood; it is the blood of Christ that makes the covenant sure and steadfast: “For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen” (2 Corinthians 1:20).

God made covenant with Jesus Christ, which is not based on humans, but on the precious blood of Christ: “Inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises” (Hebrews 8:6).

The New Covenant was not made with mankind, but with Jesus Christ. God’s covenant stands sure and settled, sealed by the eternal blood of Christ: “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Revelation 1:5).

God bought us, and Christ’s blood was the payment. When Christ shed His blood, the New Covenant was confirmed: “For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:20).

Salvation comes to us because of God’s will or testament. God gave us eternal life through Christ as a legacy. Jesus Christ is the will of God. But a will has no power unless the person who made it is dead (see Hebrews 9:16).

A will or testament is a legal document by which a person, the testator, expresses how their property should be distributed at death: “For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives” (Hebrews 9:17).

Therefore Jesus Christ, the Testator of all Scripture, had to die to make His Word in the Bible valid and secured. Christ poured out His life’s blood to give power to God’s Word, and to make Scripture the everlasting inheritance (see Hebrews 9:15).

The blood and water that came out of Jesus Christ when the Roman soldier pierced His side was a proof that our Lord Jesus indeed died as a human, and gave validity to all the promises which He made in the Holy Scripture (see John 19:33-34).

Today, Jesus Christ is alive and He is among us, not as a human, but as the living Word of God that abides forever: “But the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you” (1 Peter 1:25).

The Holy Bible is the eternal Word of God, and the book of God’s covenant. Scripture is Jesus Christ, “the Mediator of the new covenant” (Hebrews 12:24), which is the everlasting Son of God who lives and abides forever.

It is God who made the will that makes the covenant valid. Scripture says everyone has access to God’s inheritance: “For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him” (Romans 10:12).

You have nothing to do but to receive Christ. You may be poor that does not change the will; you may have disgraced yourself that cannot void the will. “For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame” (Romans 10:11).

God gave the Holy Scripture to us, which is God’s will. Jesus says, “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:40).

Whoever believes that the Scripture is the Son of God shall experience the cleansing power of God’s Word. Scripture has instantaneous effect in the heart. Jesus says, “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you” (John 15:3).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, wash me thoroughly with your living Word and cleanse my heart with the truth of the Holy Bible, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49).

Jesus Christ said to His disciples they would receive power after the Holy Spirit comes upon them: “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me” (Acts 1:8).

The Spirit of God is that Holy Spirit of the Bible which came upon the apostles on the Pentecost day, as it is written: “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh” (Acts 2:17).

If the Holy Spirit of the Bible comes upon anyone they become prophets of the Scripture, the Spirit gives power to preach Christ the Word of God: “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10).

The Holy Spirit gave birth to all Scripture, who is Jesus Christ, the living Word that gives power to God’s children: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12).

God highly lifted up Christ the Word of God far above all power and all authority and all governments, and Jesus claimed it when he said, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Matthew 28:18).

The authority of the Word of God is superior to all other powers. God’s Word has all power. When God speaks it must be done (see Psalm 33:9). Ultimately the only thing that determines what God will do and what He won’t is His spoken Word.

When we see the Word of God as the authority of God, we would realise that the Scripture is the power of God, and by Him all things are possible. God created all things through His Word both in heaven and on earth (see Colossians 1:16).

Scripture is the Word of God who manifested Himself as a human: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

The Word that descended and became a human was the same Scripture that ascended into the glory of God. “He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things” (Ephesians 4:10).

God has elevated His Word and given the Scripture all authority: “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth” (Philippians 2:10).

The Word of God is the power of God. That’s why Jesus says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty” (Revelation 1:8).

God sent the Holy Spirit to plant the truth of the Bible in our hearts. The truth is that the Scripture is the Son of God. Which is why Jesus says, “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13).

It is the Holy Spirit that helps us understand the Bible. Whoever believes in the Scripture shall receive the Holy Spirit, as it is written: “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38).

When we believe that the Scripture is Christ the Word of God, then the Father gives the Holy Spirit to us as everlasting gift. Paul wrote, “In whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise” (Ephesians 1:13).

Today, the Holy Spirit is calling everyone saying, “Come! And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.” (Revelation 22:17).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, fill me with the Spirit of the Bible so that out of my heart will flow the testimony of your living Word, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27).

God gave eternal peace to mankind through His Word. Jesus Christ is God’s everlasting covenant of peace. The Holy Bible is God’s covenant, which covenant “we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast” (Hebrews 6:19).

The great Peacemaker is God; He sent His Word of peace, and therefore He is indeed the God of peace. “The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ—He is Lord of all” (Acts 10:36).

God Himself is peace, and to know God is to have peace. The more we believe the Scripture, the more of God’s peace we shall enjoy: “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You” (Isaiah 26:3).

When Satan instigated war in heaven, God smote Satan and cast him and his entire evil rebel angels out of heaven by His Word: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony” (Revelation 12:11).

God restored peace in heaven by His powerful Word, for He drove Satan out of heaven, and expelled him by His flaming “sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Ephesians 6:17).

When Adam fell, God made peace with him through His powerful Word—the great Peacemaker: “Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9). Notice it was God who goes after Adam to make peace with him.

Although all have sinned against God, but God still came to us as the Peacemaker. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:19).

God the Father made eternal covenant of peace through Jesus Christ before the creation of the world. Before we were born God made peace with us, perfect peace through His Son Jesus Christ: “For He Himself is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14).

Jesus Christ is our peace; not only the maker of peace, but God’s peace; and since there was Christ before the creation, then there was peace before we were created: “And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist” (Colossians 1:17).

And since there will always be Scripture, so there will always be peace between God and everyone interested in God’s covenant of peace, which is the Holy Bible that abides forever. “The word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Peter 1:25).

The Holy Scripture is God’s everlasting covenant of peace, who is Jesus Christ, the only Mediator between God and mankind: “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).

God appointed His Word the King of peace, and gave all authority to the Bible to bring everlasting peace to the whole world. Scripture says all the kingdoms of mankind shall become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ (see Revelation 11:15).

Everlasting peace shall be consummated on earth when the enemy is crushed. “The last enemy that will be destroyed is death” (1 Corinthians 15:26). “For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible” (1 Corinthians 15:52).

Scripture says a time is coming when there shall be peace on earth because death is destroyed. Christ, the Son of God shall descend from heaven with a shout, and “the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live” (John 5:25).

Jesus Christ is that God who swallowed up death: “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, fill my heart and mind with the peace of God which is much greater than the human mind, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom” (Matthew 25:1).

The bridegroom is Jesus Christ and all believers in Christ are virgins, but some are wise and some are foolish. “Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps” (Matthew 25:3-4).

Scripture says that the human spirit or heart is the lamp and the vessel of the Lord: “The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart” (Proverbs 20:27).

Jesus says, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). What kind of light? The light of revelation of the true God – the Word, as it is written: “The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple” (Psalm 119:130).

So when Jesus spoke of lamps in His parable He was referring to the human hearts, that some people who believe in Jesus Christ do not know whom Christ is, that many follow blindly without knowing the true Christ (see Matthew 7:22-23).

God gave His Word as oil to illuminate the human mind.  Whoever believes that Scripture is the Word of God, and receives the Bible as the light of God; their lamp will shine for ever like the sun on the last day (see Matthew 13:43).

The Word of God is the oil that enlightens the human mind until the truth of the Bible lights up in our hearts. All Scripture is the floodlight of God, and whoever receives the Word “shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” (John 8:12).

God’s Word is the everlasting Son of God, who is Jesus Christ, which is the Holy Scripture, the eternal life and the testimony of God. “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son” (1 John 5:11).

Scripture is that oil the wise virgins took in their vessels, which is the light of God. The Word of God is Jesus Christ – the true bridegroom: “He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:12).

Jesus Christ came to fill us with the knowledge of the true God, and to give us eternal life. God gave us eternal life through His Word. And eternal life is to know Him the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent (see John 17:3).

The light of God is the knowledge of God which comes from the Scripture. It is through the Scripture we know that the Word of God is the Son of God. The Bible is the true “Witness of God which He has testified of His Son” (1 John 5:9).

Scripture is the Word of God and that bridegroom whom Jesus says is coming. The Word is “the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty” (Revelation 1:8).

The knowledge of the Holy Scripture is that oil the wise virgins took in their vessels; therefore their lamps did not switch off because “The word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Peter 1:25), “Which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).

We should seek the true revelation of God’s Word. Whoever believes the Scripture is the Word of God has the light of God. Jesus says, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness” (John 12:46).

The lamps of the foolish virgins switched off because they lack the knowledge of the coming bridegroom. The true bridegroom is the Holy Scripture: “Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness” (Luke 11:35).

Jesus says we should be prepared for the arrival of the bridegroom, that all Scripture must be fulfilled: “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18).

Today, the Scripture is knocking at the door of our hearts saying, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, open my mind to understand the Holy Scripture, and give me the ear to hear the voice of your Word, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him” (Romans 6:9).

The Word of God became a human to died and be raised again. Christ the Word is alive today through the Scripture. Therefore we should turn and look unto the Word of God, who is Jesus, “the author and finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2).

Jesus Christ is alive through the Holy Scripture. God talks to us today through His Word in the Bible. The Word is the beloved Son of God, whom God says, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” (Matthew 17:5).

Scripture is the voice of God. That’s why Jesus says, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life” (John 5:24).

God’s desire is that we should believe in His Word. Scripture says, “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:40).

Jesus Christ is alive today, not in the dead flesh, but in the Holy Bible. The Word is the real Christ, and you can find Him in the Bible. Anyone who looks into the perfect Scripture of liberty and believes in Him is doing what God says (see James 1:25).

All Scripture is the living Word of God, and He is that perfect Son of God, who is Jesus Christ the true Word of God. “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple” (Psalm 19:7).

Scripture is the Son of the only wise God. Paul wrote to Timothy saying, “And that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15).

Whoever looks to the Scripture and believes that He is the Christ shall be saved. The Word of God is the Saviour of our souls, as it is written: “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Psalm 107:20).

Jesus Christ came to heal and deliver us from the dead and carnal way of looking at God, so that we can look to the living God through the Scripture. The Word of God is the living God, and He is the resurrection and the life (see John 11:25).

We should understand that Scripture is the Word of God who became a human, and He died and rose again into the glory of the Word. Scripture is the living and powerful Son of God, who is Christ, the Word of the living God (see Hebrews 4:12).

Whoever believes the Word is Christ is born of God, and anyone who does not believe the Word is Christ is not of God: “And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world” (1 John 4:3).

Through the flesh came death, but through the Word came the resurrection. Flesh is the dead, and Scripture is the living. That’s why Jesus says, “The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).

God wants us to see ourselves dead indeed in the flesh, which is Adam the dead old man, but alive to God through the Scripture, which is Christ the living new man: “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).

An empty tomb is proof that Jesus Christ is alive today. The Word was raised from the dead flesh; and He is alive in the Bible forever. Scripture says, “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen” (Revelation 1:18).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, I thank you for the victory over sickness and death, and for the hope of eternal life, through your Word, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it” (Luke 8:21).

Jesus says His own family is the people who believe what the Bible says. Scripture says, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

It was the Word of God who became a human to reveal the truth of the Bible to us, that the Scripture is the Son of God, as it is written: “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” (John 1:17).

The Holy Scripture is the only begotten Son of God. Therefore Jesus says His brothers and sisters are those who believe what the Scripture says. “Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Galatians 3:6).

It is through the Scripture we become children of God. The Bible is the only way, the only truth, and the only life. No one comes to God except through the Scripture: “For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father” (Ephesians 2:18).

Scripture is that door to enter God’s family. God gave birth to all Scripture, who is Christ the living Word of God. That’s why Jesus says, “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture” (John 10:9).

The Lord wants us to enter through the narrow door of the Holy Bible, that Scripture is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Jesus says, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able” (Luke 13:24).

God is the Father of all Scripture; whoever believes the Scripture is adopted into God’s family: “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15).

Only the people adopted into the one family of the Bible shall be saved: “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out” (Luke 13:28).

Scripture is the Holy Seed of God, who is the Seed of Abraham: “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,”who is Christ” (Galatians 3:16).

The only way to be born into God’s family is through the one Seed of the Bible. And whoever believes that Scripture is the Son of God is adopted into Christ family: “From whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named” (Ephesians 3:15).

It is through the one Holy Seed of the Holy Bible everyone is born into the one family of the Scripture, which is that one family of Christ: “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ” (Galatians 3:27).

Scripture is the adopted family of the apostles and prophets, which is Christ family. Paul wrote, “Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).

The Bible is that spiritual family and body of Christ. Scripture says, “For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:13).

Scripture is the Father of all God’s children, who is the Christ, the one global Father of God’s very own family. Jesus says, “They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, fill my heart with the Spirit of the Holy Bible so that I would walk in your Word, and do what the Scripture says, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious” (1 Peter 2:4).

God’s desire is to make us children of God through His Son Jesus Christ: “Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love” (Ephesians 1:4).

Scripture is that beloved Son of God without blame, which is Jesus Christ. Paul wrote, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3).

God wants us to believe that His Word is the Son of God. Jesus says, “And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:40).

If we understand that the Holy Scripture is the Word of God, we would realise that He is indeed the chosen and precious Son of God. The Almighty God gave birth to all Scripture, which is Christ, the living Word of God (see 2 Timothy 3:16).

Whoever receives the Word and believes that Scripture is the Son of God is adopted into God’s family, as it is written: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12).

Jesus Christ is the New Testament name of the Word of God, which is that elevated name God gave to the Holy Scripture: “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name” (Philippians 2:9).

The Word of God is the chosen Son of God that abides forever. God gave us the Scripture so that we would receive Him as the true Son of God, and be adopted into God’s family. “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).

Scripture is that Word of God, who became a human, died and was raised, and ascended up into glory. Paul wrote, “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9).

Whoever believes and confesses that Scripture is the Word of God shall be saved. The Word is the resurrection and the life-giving Spirit. That’s why Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live” (John 11:25).

When we believe in the Holy Scripture and receive the Word of God into our hearts as the Son of God, the Father of the Scripture will love us and form the new man in our mind, “which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27).

Scripture is that new man that forms in the hearts of anyone who believes that Jesus Christ is the Word of God: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

God’s sons and daughters are those who have been born again through the Holy Scripture: “Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23).

It is through the Holy Bible we are born unto God, and become joint-heirs with Christ the chosen Word of God. “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”  (Galatians 4:6).

The Bible is the Son of God, and He’s that living Stone with a new name which is above every name, “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth” (Philippians 2:10).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, help me to live in your Word, and to move in your Word, and to abide in your Word forever, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (John 14:23).

If we love God we would also love His Word. In fact, the proof of our love for God is when we keep His commandments. “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3).

Our outward deed should be motivated by our deep love for the Scripture. Otherwise, outwardly one may be full of religious acts, but inwardly have left the first love, which is love for the Word of God (see Revelation 2:4).

Jesus Christ intentionally laid down His life. His suffering and dying was conscious and deliberate. “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” (1 John 3:16).

By choosing to obey the Scripture Jesus Christ denied Himself and took up His cross. Therefore, Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24).

We must also lay down our life for the Scripture, and take up our cross just as Jesus did and God elevated Him. Scripture says, “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it” (Luke 9:24).

The Holy Bible is that cross of Christ. Jesus says, “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels” (Luke 9:26).

Christ gave His back to whipping, His cheek to slapping in order to fulfil the Scripture: “I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting” (Isaiah 50:6).

At every moment of pain and humiliation, Jesus chose to obey the Scripture and demonstrated His love for the Word of God. “He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross” (Philippians 2:8).

Jesus Christ came to show us the love of God, that the love for the Scripture is the true love for God. And we should follow His footstep: “Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps” (1 Peter 2:21).

Whoever loves the Bible, even though they are poor, would give their “two mites” (Mark 12:42). Nothing is better and more profitable than to invest ourselves in the Scripture. No thief can steal them; no moth can destroy them (see Luke 12:33).

God wants us to have sincere love for the Scripture. Love for the Holy Bible is the righteousness of faith which works by love, as it written: “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans 13:10).

Christ is perfect because of His perfect love for the Bible. Though He is the Word, when He became a human, He obeyed the Scripture. “And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him” (Hebrews 5:9).

The Bible is that Author and perfect Saviour of our souls. Everyone who loves and believes the Scripture shall be saved, just as Abraham believed the Scripture, and became the friend of God because of his love for Christ (see James 2:23).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, fill my heart with love for Christ and make me a friend of God, in Jesus name. Amen.
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“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthian 3:16).

God created mankind so that He would dwell in us through the Spirit of His Word; the only way God can dwell in us is through the Holy Scripture. Paul wrote, “Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His” (Romans 8:9).

Scripture is that Spirit of Christ, and anyone who has the Spirit of Scripture belongs to God. The Spirit of the Bible is the Holy Spirit of freedom. “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Corinthians 3:17).

God so much loved humans He gave us the Holy Bible so that through the Scripture He can make us children of God: “As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (John 1:12).

The Holy Scripture is the Son of God, the pure and forever settled Word of God. Whoever believes the Scripture will not be disappointed. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him” (Proverbs 30:5).

All children of God have the Scripture residing in them, that’s what makes us the temple of the Holy Spirit. “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” (Galatians 4:6).

Whoever loves God will also keep His Word in their heart. Paul wrote, “Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19).

It is through the Bible we become the temple of the Holy Spirit, bought by the Scripture and for the Scripture. “For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Corinthians 6:20).

When we love and keep the Scripture, the Spirit of the Bible will also love us. Jesus says, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (John 14:23).

The Spirit of Christ cannot dwell in our natural mind, but rather in a new spiritual mind (the mind that has repented and received the Bible as the truth.) The Scripture is the truth, which is Jesus Christ the true Word of God (see John 17:17).

We must receive the Son of God, which is the Word of God, before we can receive the Spirit of the Bible, which is the Father. Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

The greatest thing we can do for our body is to make it the temple of the Holy Spirit. The moment we place our trust and faith in the Bible, the indwelling of the Spirit of Scripture takes place in our hearts (see John 7:37-39).

Paul wrote, “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise” (Ephesians 1:13).

God gives the Holy Spirit as everlasting inheritance to anyone who loves and keeps the Scripture in their heart (see John 14:15-16). And only those people who have the Spirit of the Holy Bible, are the children of God (see Romans 8:14).

PRAYER
Heavenly Father, fill me with the Spirit of the Holy Bible so that I will become the temple of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus name. Amen.
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